Robert John Bardo

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American homicide; a stalker, one of those strange predators who fixates on a public figure and follows their every move. He became obsessed with Rebecca Schaeffer, a 21-year-old actress with fresh, unspoiled beauty, the co-star of a TV series, "My Sister Sam," and he paid a private investigator $250 to find out her address. Shortly after 10:00 AM on 7/18/1989, he rang the doorbell of her Los Angeles apartment and when she answered the door, shot her once in the chest and left her bleeding in her doorway. A neighbor heard her scream and called for help; she died a half hour later in the hospital. The 19-year-old Bardo was the youngest of seven kids of a former Air Force Sergeant and a Korean mother who worked as a waitress while raising her family. After moving around the world, his dad retired in Tucson when the boy was 11. He was a bright student, earning straights A grades and with no history of violence, but a loner who was first placed under psychiatric care when he was 14. He dropped out of school and took a series of menial jobs. After the killing, Bardo returned to Tucson and, distraught, ran into rush-hour traffic. When the police picked him up, he was ranting about killing someone and wanting to kill himself. He was charged with first-degree murder. Link to Wikipedia biography